PHOTO BY HIPS/WILL KIRK

Kweisi Mfume greets members of JHU's Black History Month Committee just before his talk last week in Homewood's Hodson Hall. Mfume, a former U.S. congressman and CEO of the NAACP, gave a wide-ranging speech that touched upon racial inequities in Maryland, the state of the school system, the war in Iraq and the public's disillusionment with the current Congress.

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